Bryanboy's Adrienne Landau Collection: It's Fabulous

The email announcing the Fall 2013 collaboration between street style darling Bryanboy and Adrienne Landau had us excited and intrigued, and when previewing the line this morning, it was even better than expected (and how often can you say that?). Landau's talent for bright, luxurious fur accessories was on full display, as was Bryan Boy's blessed ability to anoint pieces with a cool factor. Standout styles from the unisex range included bow ties and camera straps, which are so social media-friendly we can already envision them hanging around the necks of top tier bloggers throughout the upcoming waves of fashion weeks. ELLE.com chatted with the pair (and fast friends) about how the project came into focus.

ELLE.com: How long have you guys known each other?

Adrienne Landau: Well, Bryan's always been coming up to the showroom.

Bryanboy: We were introduced by a common friend, [fashion editor] Kyle Anderson, and since then I've been borrowing samples. One day I said, 'Adrienne, do you have a mink scarf in this color?' and it wasn't available. I said, jokingly, 'You know, we should collaborate, and I'm going to make everything in different colors.' And we had lunch and it just happened.

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AL: We were fans of each other, and I've always thought when you do something, you have to love it. It's a passion and you gotta feel it. So when he wanted that crazy colored scarf and he suggested that we collaborate, I thought it sounded like so much fun. At this point in my career, working with somebody like Bryan brings in such a great energy. I'd always believed in unisex, but the men's stores we sell to are so conservative. We're always going, 'Please, take a chance. Take a little chance.'

ELLE: What was that color you wanted that started this whole thing?

BB: I think it was orange. A bright orange mink scarf.

ELLE: Are any of the colors here something you've never done before?

AL: It's all pretty much new. I know Bryan loves yellows and greens, and I'm the purple and red girl. So he said, 'Let's do them all!' Even men wearing coral—I think it's fresh looking.

ELLE: How did the camera straps come about?

BB: As a blogger, I always carry a camera. There's branding in it. And you know, it's really heavy! Why not create something that's not [available]? Why not cover the strap with fur?

ELLE: And those bow-ties…

BB: They're rabbit and super, super accessible. Just a nice pop of color.

AL: There's some mink, too. For the upscale man at the Oscars. The girls are going crazy. They're actually putting them in their hair like a big bow.

ELLE: Had you thought about then when designing them?

BB: No—we were just shooting the look book, and we thought, 'Hey, why don't we put this on the model's head?' Now we're going to put clips on it and produce them. I just like the idea of using fur and color as a personal punctuation mark. You can wear a suit, a dress, a tank top, a T-shirt, jeans…it just adds that pop of color.

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ELLE: Bryan, how many pieces do you have lined up to wear at fashion week?

ELLE: This was your first designer collaboration. How was the experience?

BB: It's been good and really organic. I love fur and color, and I was really involved in everything—the measurements, the details. I had to fight for my colors on some things.

AL: It was so great. I've collaborated with other people, and Bryan's so detail-oriented. He reminds me of myself when I started. Everything had to be perfect, and [he] notices every little thing.

BB: She wanted me to create some crazy coats and vests and garments. And I was like, 'I need training first!'

AL: I was sure he could do it.

BB: Well, not yet. It's too early.

AL: I believe it's about somebody feeling something. You don't have to have training to know when something's right or wrong. You have this innate sense of, 'Oh no, this is really bad' or 'I love this, this is going to sell.'

ELLE: So are you talking about working together again?

BB: Yes!

AL: Yeah!

BB:We were already joking, can you imagine if I'm the creative director a fur company? That's insane! But still, it's early days. Our deal was to create one collection and we want it to be successful, to sell. And we'll see from there.